Back from Cologne Commons
Last week I spent two days at the first Cologne Commons conference and festival. Cologne Commons was an intense experience with interesting discussions and great music. It was great to meet some netaudio artists and other people who run Netlabels themselves.
Highlights were the live performances of Entertainment For The Braindead and Comfort Fit on [...]
First part of netlabel research report available
In cooperation with Phlow Patryk Galuszka presents selected results of the first part of a research, which was conducted to learn more about netlabels. The research is a part of his postdoctoral project which deals with netaudio scene from perspectives of business studies and economic sociology. Patryk got in contact with 650 netlabels, send out [...]
Sonic Walker Mix 74: Project 133
DJ mixes are always a good way to get to know a netlabel and its artists. In his new mix sea.envy presents Terminalstation, a fundamentally diverse audio & visual netlabel from the UK. Sea.envy’s Project 133 mix features various styles which can be found on Terminal Station and is one hour, three minutes and three [...]
Sonic Walker Mix 71: Netmix3
With his 3rd mix of danceable electronic netlabel music Insignifiant’s
Netmix series is now officially a trilogy. One of the featured labels of this mix is Front, a Georgian netlabel which was founded in 2007.
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Tracklist and download
Netwaves Bytes: Electro 1
Netwaves is proud to present its first virtual CD: ‘Netwaves Bytes: Electro 1′. This compilation is the first in a series that represent the best netlabel tunes from all over the world. Netaudio is not about profit figures, it’s about creativity and independence. For the music lover, this means open, free music without lawyers.
This release [...]
Nucleons in my house on Loopzilla
I am back on Loopzilla with my second mix, which is called ‘nucleons in my house‘. Nucleons are sub-atomic particles and I thought that would be right for a deep and mellow house mix.
Tom Larson’s Deep Side mix here on Sonic Walker inspired me to make this mix and I hope you enjoy this one [...]
Ruhrschnellweg Mix on Zimmer-Records
For Zimmer-Records I have compiled and mixed some harder techno tracks, which reminded me of the time when I lived in the German Ruhrgebiet. I called the mix Ruhrschnellweg, which is the name of the main road connecting some of the central towns in the area. Going to clubs like the Planet in Bochum, I [...]
Sonic Walker Mix 27: Gekko’s Intermezzo
I am very pleased to welcome Seth Gekko on Sonic Walker. Seth is a very active German netlabel DJ and mastermind behind Loopzilla, a fellow DJ mix netlabel. Seth Gekko navigates with his netlabel mix between various styles of electronic music. The mix starts with minimal but funky tech-house, moves forward into Chicago house, becomes [...]
Spanish netlabel news
InVitro from Mexico who has previously released a mix here on Sonic Walker started his own blog with netlabel news and reviews for those among us speaking Spanish.
New Netlabel Mixes in February
Just before the end of this month and before we release the next Sonic Walker mix, let’s have a look other netlabel mixes which have been published this month. Once again minimal techno is dominating.
Our friends from Zimmer Records have released two new mixes in their Zimmer Mix Series:
Mix#015 – DJ L’embrouille – 2007.7 (techno, [...]
DIY or die: netlabels liberate music
Back in August, Joshua Smith published an interesting article about netlabels in MetOnline, a magazine produced by and for the students of the Metropolitan State College of Denver.
So while the birth of MP3 culture and online music trading is [...]
New netlabel mixes in November
While I am busy with the next mix for Sonic Walker, you might enjoy these new netlabel mixes:
xxlounge-16-KW46-2006 on ton99.de
Mixed by Christian Krischer aka mr. dracunspate. Every week there’s a new mix, former mixes with playlists are available in their online archive.
seth gekko has two new mixes online on Loopzilla
shorter days and 762040
Each with more [...]
Periodic Müsik Mixes moved
Pablo e. Peña P. from Venezuela moved his minimal and ambient netlabel mixes to a new blog and released two new mixes, periodic müsik mix 006 and periodic müsik mix 007. You can now also subscribe to his MY ODEO PODCAST and let your computer download all his current and future mixes automatically [...]
Recent netlabel DJ mixes -June 2006
Time for an overview of netlabel mixes for this month:
Zerinnerung has been active as always and has released 2 new mixes:
[Dubtech / Minimal] Zerinnerung Mix 042
Tom Larson – Nebeltal (70:15 min, 99MB)
[Minimal / Chill] Zerinnerung 043
Adaptive – Indoctrination (57:38, 81MB)
Patten from Berlin takes us into the minimal Techno world with his Next Step mix:
[minimal-techno] Patten [...]
Recent netlabel DJ mixes -May 2006
While I started working on the next Sonic Walker Mix, other netlabels and arists have released new mixes since my last post:
The Flower Garden mix by Entactogen goes from lounge sounds to liquid drum’n’bass and ends with wonderful chillout tunes. [Zerinnerung Mix 038]
Seth Gecko is also back with more minimal techno in his Mister X [...]
Recent netlabel DJ mixes – April 2006
More free & legal DJ mixes from the netlabel community:
In support of a friend who ran 42.2 kilometers in a marathon in Paris, DJ L’embrouille created a marathon netlabel mix. 42.2 tracks in 2 hours, 3 minutes and 58 seconds: Marathon Netlabel 2006 Week 15 [mel27]
Pablo e. Peña from Monotono records released his 3rd [...]
Recent netlabel DJ mixes
On Zimmer-Records psyCodEd has released an exclusive Dataman tribute mix. Andreas Seibel aka Dataman runs a netlabel called Legoego and has released on labels like comatronic and Edensonic.
DJ L’embrouille goes (almost) minimal again in his Melenick Session 024 : DJ L’embrouille netlabel mix week 12 (tracklist) including tracks from two new labels – grhk from [...]
netlabel-board.org – the netaudio community
Aleks Janeski from zimmer-records and Tobi Tobsucht from rest have launched an online forum for and about netlabels.
we are proud to announce that we just founded
the first pure netaudio board on the web.
find new labels, releases, talk to other producers,
and find new projects to work for…
we hope to give all the netaudio friends a
place to [...]
Melenic House Session – 0603 [swm007]
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DJ l’embrouille is back on Sonic Walker with a new netlabel mix full of warm Deep- and Tribal-House getting us in the right mood for the springtime.
Go to the mix page
Recent netlabel DJ mixes
Until the next Sonic Walker Mix is ready, there are some new netlabel mixes elsewhere you might enjoy:
Machtdose Netlabel-Mix März 2006 (69:59 Min, ca. 96 Mb)
psyCodEd – zerZimmerung (Zerinnerung Mix 030) (100 MB)
Sixteensteps.com Netlabel Launched
Sixteensteps.com has launched its opening with a compilation release titled “Labor of Love.” It is an electronic based label offering music crossing many different styles and genres. Its debut release features all current seven artists on the label plus 2 other releases by artist Cresh Frazy with more releases soon on their way…. [...]
More netlabel DJ mixes
It has been a productive netlabel DJ weekend. Next to our Rainy Day Mix, also DJ l’Embrouille just released his weekly Netlabel mix with many new and interesting techno tracks and Sven Swift from the 12rec.net netlabel released a downtempo mix on Zerinnerung.
Downloads:
DJ l’Embrouille – Netlabel week 06 [Melenick Session 019]
Sven Swift – The [...]
Welcome 2 Idealtechno
Idealtechno is a new German netlabel, which just released their fist release with tracks from Ambitronic, Monoton Deejays and Docma. Unfortunately their site uses frames, so I can not link directly to the release. Also their site is until now only available in German, but nevertheless, the music is good and that’s what is [...]
DJ l’Embrouille – Netlabel Week 04 [mel018]
Also this week DJ l’Embrouille released his selection of new netlabel releases presented in the Melenick Session mix series. The mix for week 04 just went online and starting with ambient and deep, it covers house, dub and minimal sounds as well.
Playlist
[igloo-net007] Ismael Pinkler – Anhelo
[frag008] mujuice – backward running
[ykyk003] zofa – aria giovani
[thn083] Alta [...]
